I really don’t want to make a big deal of this, but here’s the new blog.
FAQ:
1. Er…why?
Because as much as I really and truly do like the Way of the Old Blog, with news links, discussions and lots of links for blegs and such, I need to stop doing that.
2. But, why?
Because it takes a lot of time and energy that you just can’t see. There’s this cumulative expectation, built up over the years, that my blog had to be a certain kind of comprehensive Catholic blog, etc., etc. It’s something I envisioned myself at the very beginning, but then gradually tried to back off from, and actually grew to try to cast off – over the years – really from about 2004. Careful readers will see that over the past year I have really been trying to move away from that: posting less frequently, opening comments less, etc.
A CLEAN BREAK was called for.
3. So why not just stop blogging all together? Ego, much?
No, not really. I like to write. I like to create stuff. Except for my family and the check-out people at Meier’s, I live a fairly solitary existence. At this point, it’s a way for me to connect. I am grateful for readers, and you are a fundamental part of the pleasure of blogging, but numbers are not my issue, at all.
So here it is. I am still figuring out WordPress. Oh, that leads to:
4. Why WordPress? Why not just redo the old blog at the same address?
Because it’s part of that clean break, completely new blog, completely new sensibility on my part. I can’t even think of a title for this blog, so it’s untitled. I was going to call it “Charlotte Was Both,” and I still might. Or not. There is much I like about Typepad, and a few things so far I find quite counterintuitive about WordPress, but I like the templates here better – they are easier to play with in the ways I want to play with them – the banner up there, for example, is super-simple to change off, which I will do frequently.
So we’ll see…